Hi
We are getting about 86% overall NHS numbers with about 90% from GPs - mostly handwritten.
The worst area is Casualty with 75%.
The hospital area busily merging 11,000 paper patient records because of duplicate hospital numbers - they cannot use the same NHS number on 2 different hospital numbers.
We are supposed to be one of the early implementers of Carecast from the London LSP but thats now slipped at least 9 months to the end of 2006.
The hospital has introduced the PACS system to the new LSP standards - there are integrtion problems between PACS and the Radiology system.
I think our hospital does believe in the NHS Number
Mike Howell
Hillingdon Hospital
>>> Jonathan Kay <[log in to unmask]> 14 July 2005 >>>
How are people getting on with NHS numbers? I've been at several
meetings recently which have had air of pessimism when this has been
raised. I find this surprising. We think they are brilliant and are
trying to complete the migration to using them across the
request-report cycle before the EPR arrives...
Jonathan
On 14 Jul 2005, at 08:49, Smith, Helen wrote:
> Memories in Spain are obviously better than here. How many people can
> actually remember first time their own mobile phone number, how often
> have you forgotten your user name or password to some internet site.
> How often do lab IT managers have to reset the password of a member of
> staff who has been away 2 weeks and forgotten it? As for having to
> remember a code number to pick up my answer phone messages, has the
> whole world gone secrecy/security mad?
>
> Your technophobically
>
> Helen
>
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> Subject: Re: (Fwd) E-Health Insider Primary Care, Issue No 24
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>
> Electronic prescriptions has been piloted in several
> centres in Spain over the last few years, as well as
> giving pharmacists a role in the follow up of problems
> related to medicines. In Spain everyone carries their
> ID cards or remembers their 7 figure number from
> chidhood onwards, thus preventing this type of
> problem.
>
> David Brown
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> > E-HEALTH INSIDER PRIMARY CARE
> > Issue No 24, 13 July 2005
> >
> **********************************************************************
> >
> > We heard recently of an elderly lady who queued up
> > for a long time in
> > the post office - as one has to do these days - only
> > to forget the PIN
> > needed to pick up her pension. She left in tears
> > with no money, a
> > bewildered casualty of the decision to pay pensions
> > and benefits
> > electronically, rather than via hard copy pass
> > books.
> >
> > This week we report on a warning that local
> > pharmacies are likely to
> > undergo similar radical changes when electronic
> > transfer of
> > prescriptions takes off. This will send a chill down
> > the spine of
> > everyone dealing with the problems caused not only
> > by the decision to
> > go for electronic pension and benefit payments but
> > also the
> > side-effect of sub-post offices closing by the
> > score.
> >
> > The Department of Work and Pensions made huge
> > efforts to try to stop
> > sad scenes like the one described but some people
> > can't cope, usually
> > the most vulnerable ones least likely to protest.
> > This is not an
> > argument against using technology to make our public
> > services safer
> > for the majority and more cost-effective. Rather it
> > is a warning that
> > the health service will have to have multiple access
> > channels to
> > protect its most vulnerable patients for as long as
> > it takes and
> > probably a lot longer than the authorities would
> > like..
> >
> > Being left without money is frightening and
> > disruptive for an elderly
> > person, being left without medication could be
> > life-threatening.
> >
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